PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Modal Auxiliary Verbs
Modal auxiliary verbs indicate expressions of belief, attitudes, likelihood, permission, or obligation. They inform the function of the main verb, and color the verb on a scale ranging from possibility to necessity. Video (0:47)
University College London
University College London: Auxiliary Verbs
This site has information on auxiliary verbs. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Helping and Modal Auxiliary Verbs
A helping and modal auxiliary verb site from the Capital Community College. Use this site as a reference tool when learning about modal auxiliary verbs.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Verb Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a verb phrase in the context of a sentence.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Auxiliary (Helping) Verbs
Is the underlined verb the main verb in the sentence, or is it helping the main verb?
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Classification
Explanations and examples of helping verbs and main verbs with a link to additional information about helping verbs.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Verb Forms
Explanations and examples of verb forms with links to additional information on tenses, forms of main verbs, forms of helping verbs, and a main verb forms quiz.
English Club
English Club: Verb Classification Quiz
Determine the classification of the verb in each of the ten sentences in this quiz. Check your answers when finished.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive Verbs of Doubt
A Spanish word bank of verbs of doubt is used to complete Spanish translations of the main clause. The student practices conjugating these verbs in the present indicative tense. Answers may be checked and corrected. The present...